The Penn's Grove record., 1887-07-23
NUMBER 81.

seven lunuTe n utLy men ATe
thrown out of work. The wooden and
cording mills and the Royal Electric
Light COmpany's buildings, at st.
Hyacinthe, Quebec, were burned on the
18th. Loss, $4,000, partly insured.
"A severe thunder storm, accom-.
panied by rain and hail. passed ove
Baltimore on the afternoon of the 18th.
Signs and awnings were blown down by
the wind. Miss Ida Andrews was
killed, and her sister Jennie badly in
jured by the blowing down OF a tree at
Emory Grove, about twenty miles
from Baltimore.
Captain William Burgess accident
ally shot himself dead while cleaning
a revolver, at Chambersburg, Pennsyl-
vania on the 18th. He served with
distinction through the war, and was
Commander Oi Hausum Post. G.. A. X.
In 1S77-78 be represented Franklin
county IN the State Legislature. Will
liam Glenn, a prominent business man
stockholders of the Commercial Gazette,
died on the evening of the 18th.
Two shifting engines On the Read
ing Railroad collided on the 18th near
Reading and were wrecked, with u
number of cars. William Gordon, n
gineer, and Charles Upp, brakeman,
were severely injured. Solomon Ba-
ker, a Waterman in a Lake George
hotel, was killed while trying to board
a moving train at Saratoga, on the
the evening of the 18th.
The storm on the afternoon OF the
18th, in Baltimore, was followed by n
other Of nearly equal violence about 3
O'Clock on the morning of the 18th.
Nearly all the trees in Harlem Park
were damaged, and many of them were
destroyed. Several houses in Cumber-
land street were struck by lightning
and unroofed, and their contents were
almost entirely ruined by tire rain.
''UnrOOied houses are to be seen all
over the western section Of the CITY,"
The hail on the afternoon of the 18th
broke all the windows on the south
side Of the city Marine Hospital, on the
Patapsco river, and the whole building
was flooded by the rain. During the
storm on the afternoon of the 18th,
Mrs. James Ent, wife of a farmer liv-
ing in WicomiCO county, Maryland,
and Doctor Woolverton, a visitor, were
both instantly kill d by a flash of light
nIng, which also stunned Mr.. Ent, who
was Just entering the house to seek
refuge from the storm. News has also
been received of the killing, near Cock
eysyille, about twenty miles north OF
Baltimore, of Charles Clark, who was
driving a pair of horses. The flash
that caused his death also killed both
horses.
AT Lancaster, Penna., on the
evening of the 10Th. a fire started IL
Abraham Hirsch's millinery store, the
scene of the fire of the 10th, and az
tended to Hlrsch d Brothers clothing
store adjoining. Both stores stores
were burned out, and Long & Sons
drug store was damaged. The loss OF
Hirsch Il Brothers is estimated at S40,-
000; insurance. S35 1000, Abraham
Hirsch has $4,000 insurance on his
building and stock. A fire at Owens
borO, Kentucky, on the evening OF the
18th, destroyed nine buildings. Twelve
horses were burned to death ina stable.
The total loss is estimated at $4,000;
insurance, $40, 000. The storehouse OF
the Burlington and Missouri River
Railway at Lincoln, Nebraska, was
burned on the evening of the 18th.
Loss, $50, 600; insured. The St. An
thony elevator, near Minneapolis. was
burned on the evening of the 10Th. 1t
was a triple structure, and had a capa-
city of 2 100, 900 bushels. The loss Is
estimated at $515, 0OO.
"A terrific storm swept over Wheel
ing, West Virginia, and the surround
ing country on the evening Of the 18th.
TIE rain and wind were heavy, and for
an hour there was scarcely any inter-
m ssion between the lightning flashes.
In Wheeling shade trees and fences
were blown down, and one wall Of a
brick house wa demolished. At Graf
ton Mrs. w. 4. Carr was killed and
her three children were injured by an
electric bolt which struck their dwell
ling. Another dwelling chad a large
hole knocked In it" by the lightning.
Six stables and barns at other points
were destroyed by lightning, causing
losses a~ggTegating over $4,000.
Professor Forbes. State Entomol-
OgiSt OF ILLINOIS, say S that 'cnllcn bugs
have obtained IA foothold in the nor.
thern portion of Illinois to such an ex-
tent as TO assure an immense number q
them nexu year, unless weather un-
favorable to their development should
intervene" lie says that ''the danger
from this source threatens to damage
the wheat crop OF 1888 to an extent in
comparison with which the pleurO-
pneumonia and other recent outbreaks
Of contagious diseases among domestic
animals will be Insignificant"
1T is reported from Ell Pdso, Texas,
that ''clO5e upon the heels OF the news
Of the ear thquake at Bavispe, COME the
details of a still greater calamity at
Bacariac, a town twenty miles from
Bavispe. 1t had before the catastrophe
1900 inhabitants. When Bavispe was
DESTROYED the town was badly shaken
up, and most of the inhabitants fed.
Since then the town of Bacarlac has
been visited by a succession Of shocks
that have reduced the town TO ruins;
of the people escaped, as they lied
to the country teIr0r-stricken on the
irst disturbance"